Leading Thoughts for June 19, 2025

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

Marshall Goldsmith on personal growth:

“If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.”

Source: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

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Alan Deutschman on Ranking values:

“When you walk the walk, you reveal the ranking of your values. There are always a multitude of values that are well worth enshrining. The hard part. Is making the inevitable trade-offs between them: deciding this is more important than that. And the hardest part is showing that one particular thing, or two things, are the most important.”

Source: Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders

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